# 16th Street Diner, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/16th-street-diner-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/16th-street-diner-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

16th Street Diner is a diner in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 35 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Diner |
| Address | 3147 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9 AM to 2:30 PM and 5 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (415) 829-3826 |
| Rating | 4.7 across 258 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Monday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 3147 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Traditional American Diner, serving Halal meat | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, 5:00 to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Mondays | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, 5:00 to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | 16th Street Diner | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 829-3826 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting 16th Street

Address: 3147 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Phone: (415) 829-3826. Hours: Mon to Sun 9 AM to 2:30 PM and 5 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Traditional American Diner, serving Halal meat"


### When to go

Quietest day: Monday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Finish Wine Tavern | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Gestalt Craft Beer Bar | Bar | 1 min walk |
| Wrap & Roll | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Chicken King | Takeout restaurant | 1 min walk |
| K and D market and liqours | Liquor store | 1 min walk |
| ABV | Bar | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.7 average across 258 reviews: Google 258. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

The diner stands out for its halal offerings and affordable prices, but service and food quality can vary significantly. (AI guess, from 258 reviews.)


### What people like

- Philly steak sandwich
- Chicken and waffles
- Tenderloin omelette
- Avocado bacon cheeseburger
- Fluffy buttermilk pancakes


### What people do not like

- Slow service during busy hours
- Inconsistent food quality
- Small portion sizes for the price
- Out of coffee during service


### Press

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## Questions people ask


### bad experiences at 16th Street, anyone?


### Coffee near 16th Street on 16th?


### What diner questions is San Francisco asking AI most?


### Worth the hype here?


### On a budget in San Francisco, is this place the one?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### Whereabouts is 16th Street?


### best diner in San Francisco


### rough idea what 16th Street costs?


### does 16th Street ever have cancellations


### anyone been to both here and Pinecrest Diner?


### where does this place post updates


### is there a day here that is not slammed


### Are the hours on Google right for 16th Street in San Francisco?


### the good stuff about this place, what is it?


## The AI Score: 35 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco diners run 24 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. 16th Street scores 35, below the San Francisco average of 37. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | 16th Street |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 83 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a diner: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to 16th Street |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16th Street Diner | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City 16th Street is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the diners in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best diners in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/diner
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJyY8uFr5_j4ARaAPMtf0r07Q (accessed Sep 9, 2026)